Meanings
plural spiceries
- countableuncountableSpices, in general.
- archaiccountableuncountableA repository of spices.
Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time1 more example
Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.
1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchespicerie
- Middle Englishspicerie
- Englishspicery
From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.
More words from Middle English, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian подправки
- подправки (podpravki)spices in general
Cite this entry
spicery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spicery
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